~ A DISEASE? ~
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"Doc! What do you mean-nothing! What? An incurable disease?
Doc, you're kidding me! You're trying to scare me into stopping!
What's that you say? You wish you were?
What are those tears in your eyes Doc?"
The Big Book, The Believer
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For a very long time I scoffed at those
who said my overweight was because I had
a disease. Yes, my body had doubled in
size ... but it was because I ate more
calories than my body burned. My doctor
said so ... he didn't say I had a
disease. His "treatment" was to tell me
to go on a diet and join a gym. The diet
lasted for a few months and I believe I
used the gym about six or seven times. I
know now without a single doubt that I
have a disease ... a serious one. I know
that it is incurable and that I will
have to live with this disease for the
rest of my life. Dieting made me
fat. Somewhere along the way I didn't
"get it."
ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .
I will resist thinking that being a compulsive eater is not a disease. I will aggressively and tenaciously do the footwork necessarily to combat it.